Soil Regeneration for Healthy and Sustainable Wicking Beds
This article argues that human health and soil health are intimately linked: modern food often lacks essential minerals and phytochemicals because soils…
Soils to Supply Essential Nutrients
This newsletter explains why healthy soil is fundamental to healthy food and healthy people. It shows how modern processed food is full…
WickiMix Manual: Practical Guide to Soil and Bed Management
The WickiMix system is a practical soil management method designed for wicking beds, sponge beds, and conventional garden beds. By combining living…
Soil Biology — The Key to Healthy Soil and Nutrition
This article explains why soil biology is the foundation of healthy, fertile soil — not just chemistry or texture. Living soil, alive…
Real Soil — Why Soil Life Matters for Our Health
This article argues that true human health begins with living soil. It explains how modern processed‑food systems, intensive farming and sterile soils…
WickiMix: A Practical Approach to Living Soil
This article presents the principles of “WickiMix” soil preparation for wicking beds in a clear and memorable way. It explains how combining…
Soils, Minerals and Biological Health
This article explains why truly “living soil” is essential to good health. It describes how trace minerals, soil biology and proper soil…
The Gbiota Club — Growing Soil, Food, and Human Health
The Gbiota Club helps people grow nutrient-rich food using living soils. Members learn practical gardening and wicking bed techniques, improve soil biology,…
Transforming Parent Soils for Healthy Growing
This article explains how to turn basic soils — like clay, sand, or potting mix — into fertile, living soils for gardens…
How Nature Creates Soil: Understanding the Journey of Soil Formation Across the Earth
Soil is the foundation of life, yet often overlooked. Modern agriculture treats it as inert, managed by chemicals rather than understood as…
Growing for Health: A Community Guide to Nutrient-Dense Food Production
Growing for Health: A Community Guide to Nutrient-Dense Food Production This document is a condensed and reorganised version of the “Xiulan” material:…
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems This blog explains how wicking beds were developed and why they work…
Gut Biology from Food
Gut Biology from Food This article explores how healthy soils and biologically active plants support human gut health. The GBiota system combines…
Soils to Grow Food That Will Make Us Healthy
This article explains how healthy soil supports plants that provide essential nutrients and phytonutrients for human health. By understanding and enhancing natural…
Living Soils, Fungal Composting and Health
The food we eat has a dramatic effect on our health. In the modern food system, mega corporations heavily promote highly processed…
How I Grow Wickimix
WickiMix is grown based on the practical observation that good soil is formed in the root zone of specific plants. My aim is…
Why WickiMix?
Modern humans are the end result of millions of years of evolution. Our food was generally low in energy, high in fibre…
Soils for Wicking Beds
Many people think wicking beds are just to save water; the most important feature however is creating a mini ecology with a…
Health Starts in the Soil & Community Supported Agriculture
Human health begins in the soil that feeds our food and ultimately our gut microbes. Healthy, biologically rich soil creates healthy plants,…
Health Starts in the Soil Part 3
The trillions of cells in our guts do more than digest food. They form part of an intelligent control system that manages…
How Water Moves in Soil: Gravity, Flow & Biology
While the physical construction of the bed may not be so important it is essential to follow certain rules to ensure the…
Soil for Wicking Beds: Biology, Minerals and Health
Healthy Plants vs Plants That Make Us Healthy The most common question I am asked is about soils for wicking beds. That’s…
Soil Biology: The Key to Healthy Wicking Soils
Soil biology is the key — my aim with WickiMix is to provide a concentrate and inoculant where people can create their…
Soil Journey: How Nature Creates Fertile Soil
Where to start regenerating soil? Well nature has been making soil for a few billion years so let us see what we…
Real Soil: Growing Healthy Food in Living Soil
I am a great believer in science, however I am concerned about the way science is used (or abused). Antibiotics must be…
Transforming Parent Soils for Healthy Wicking Beds
Parent soils, such as clay, sands and potting mixes can be transformed into soils suitable for wicking beds. Here we start by…
Gbiota Soil Blood, Flood-and-Flush Irrigation, and Foliar Spray
Last updated 8th August with section on foliar irrigation Our basic inputs are organic waste, manure and volcanic rock dust. All cheap, readily available and sustainable. The microbes, particularly the...
Health starts in the soil
Health starts in the soil
Gbiota soil
Creating soil is the number two challenge facing humanity, after climate change. We know exactly how to do it, it has been happening for billions of years naturally covering much...
Health starts in the soil
Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota...
Health starts in the soil Part 2
Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota...
Making soil in Gbiota beds
The key principle of Gbiota bed is to breed beneficial biology both for the soil and for our guts – creating the conditions which favour the beneficial biology – so...
Making soil 101
Gbiota beds are not simply a watering system to grow cabbages – they are to breed the biology to grow plants as natural pre and pro biotics.
Making soil work
We have the technical ability to grow food, which is convenient, taste good and is cheap in a way totally divorced from the conventional methods of food production, no longer...
Soil destruction
Soil is created by biological action but the wide spread use of chemicals and mechanisation is slowly but persistently destroying the soil on which human life depends.
Rock Dust & Why Soil Biology Matters
Why Not Just Add Rock Dust? The amount of micro-nutrients humans need is tiny—often just a few micrograms. Meanwhile the planet holds…